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UN TE STATES PATIENT OFFlCE LOOM Whitworth F. Bird, Springflehhand William R. Hewton, Philadelphia, Pa., assignors to Collins 8 Aikman Corporation, Philadelphia, Pa., a corporation of Delaware Application octoberilo, 1934, Serial No. 750,626 41 Claims. rol. 139-243) This inventionrelates to looms; and it has reference more particularly to what are known as "automatic" loom's which are 'fitted with automatic mechanism for replenishing exhausted shuttles with new weft from a storage supply. While we have herein shown and described our invention with reference to a pile fabric loom;

flnements of construction and arrangement in automatic looms, more perfect coordination be- 1 tween the movements of the lay, the shuttle throwingor picking'mechanism and the weft replenishing mechanism, so that the looms may be operated at much higher speeds than possible heretofore with attendant increase in fabric output from-them.

An object of our invention is to provide in connection with automatic weft replenishing mechanism, ejector means capable of actuation through movement derived from the lay, in successively thrusting filled bobbins from a gravityfeed supply magazine into the shuttles, with incident displacement from the latter, of bobbins which are substantially exhausted.

35 Another object of our invention is to provide in. weft replenishing mechanism of the kind re- 'ferred to; automatic means operable incident to re'moyal of a bobbin to follow the gravitational shift of the remaining bobbins in the magazine taken as indicated by the arrows View m Figs.

40 andlto hold the weft ends of the stored bobbins automatic means respectively nor" seve'ringthe weftof a substantially exhausted bobbin within a shuttle immediately before a bobbin change is Another object of our inventionis to provide automatic means for removing, fromthe selvage of the fabrlc the projecting ends of the old and the new, weftsl incident to bobbin replacements,

Fig. II is an elevation Figs. III. and IV.

separated against the possibility of entangle- Another obje ct of our invention to provide,

as well as for collecting such removed ends upon severance by the severing means.

In connection with double .fabric automatic looms, We aim to make possible the replacement of exhausted bobbins in the two shuttles, by

filled bobbins from a single source of supply, through provision of means for throwing the shuttles simultaneously in opposite directions between stationary shuttle boxes at opposite sides of the loom, in conjunction with a selectively- .operable bobbin change means capable of placing a filled bobbin in either shuttle while the shuttle rests in one of the shuttle boxes.

. Another object of our invention is to provide in a double fabric automatic loom embodying all the features above'mentioned, timing means for governing the selective operation of the filling replenishing mechanism, the functioning of the weft severing devices, and the means for removing the projecting ends of the wefts from the selvage of the fabric concurrently with, their severance Further objects and attendant advantages ofour invention will be manifest from the detailed description following of the attached drawings,

wherein .Fig. I is a view showing in side elevation, a portion of a loom conveniently embodying the present improvements. 1

of the other side-of the loom. a 1

Fig. III is a transverse sectional view of the loom taken asvindi'cated by the arrows IIIIII in Figs. I and II.

Fig. IV is a fragmentary plan section taken as 7 indicated by the arrows .IV--IV in Fig. III.

' Fig, V is-a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view taken as indicated by the .arrows VV in Fig. VI is .a-fragmentary longitudinal section IIIandIV. I V

r Fig. VII is a. fragmentary vertical viewthrough the bobbin storage magazine taken as indicated by the arrows VIIVII in Figs. III and IV.

Fig. VIII is a. fragmentary transverse sectional view taken as indicated by the arrows VIII-VIII v in Fig. II, and showing the shuttle box at the right hand side of the loom.v

Fig. 1x1; a fragmentary plan'section taken as indicated by the arrows IX-IX in Fig. VIII.

- right *hand shuttle box, taken s indicated by the arro s XII-XII in Fi X shuttles.

Fig. XVI is a cross sectional view of the shuttle illustrated inFig. XV, taken as indicated by the arrows XVI- -XVI in the latter figure.

Fig. XVlI is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view of the loom corresponding to Fig. V, showing the means actuated through movement derived from the lay. for effecting bobbin sub s'titutions in the shuttles.

Fig. XVIII is a view corresponding to Fig. XVII showing the parts differently positioned.

Fig. m is a fragmentary plan sectional view of the bobbin storagemagazine taken as'indicated by the arrows XDI-JCEX in Figs. E, III, V- and VI[..

Fig. XXisa fragmentary verticalsectional view of the magazine taken as indicated by the arrows XX. Q in Figs. II, IV, V and VII.

Figs. m and XXII are fragmentary detail sectional views taken as indicated respectively by the arrows E-Xi and XXIL-min Figs XDI and XX.

Fig. XXIII is a fragmentary plan view corresponding to Fig. IV on a larger scale, taken as indicated by the arrows XXIII EDIIII in Fig. IlI corresponding to Fig. IV. and showing more particularly the means for collecting the severed portionsof the wefts removed at the selvage of thefabric incident to bobbin changes.

Fig. XXV is a detail sectionalview taken as" indicated bythe arrowsXXIVmV in Fig.

Fig. XXV is a perspective view showing how the weft end of a substantially-exhausted bobbin is severed in the shuttle preparatory to substitution of a new filled bobbin, inreadiness to be removed 7 at the fabric selvage.

Figs. XXX and'XXXI are fragmentary detail views showing the guard in different positions; and f Fig. XXXII is a diagfam' showing the timing mechanism by which the performance of various mechanisms of the loom is governed and controlled. p

Referring first more particularly to Figs. 1,, II,

HI. VI, XVI and XVII of these illustrations-,3

designates the main shaft of the loom which may be driven by power in any suitablemanner, andwhich is journaled at its ends in bearings afforded by the laterally-spaced side frames 2 and 3 of the the usual crank shaft'for actuating the lay, which latter is comprehensively designated by the nu-' meral 8. as shown; the lay 8 comprises side members! which have bow-like'forward portions Hi and longitudinally-slotted declining rearward extensions i i, said members being connected at the front by parallel crosswise angle bars I 2, it immediately above and below the bow openings or recesses l4, and supporting the reed I5 between 5 them. From FigS.-VI, XVII and XVIII, it will be observed that the lay 8 is restricted to reciprocation in a plane slightly inclined to the horizontal, through engagement of forwardly-projecting upwardly-sloping rods I6 in its side members 9 with fixed guides i on the side frames 2, 3 of the loom and through engagement of swivel blocks-I8 on the shaft 7 with the longitudinal slots in the rearward extensions I ll of said side-members whereof the angle of declination corresponds exactly with the slope of the rods I6. Instead of being formed with the usual crank or cranks, the shaft 1 is provided with similar pairs of rotary cam disks l9, the disks of such pairs being spaced to respectively receive the rearward extensions 4 i of the lay side members 9 between them as shown in Figs. DI and IV. The disks of each pair iii are exact counterparts of each other, and are formed at their inner faces with mergent grooves 20, 2i which are eccentric and concentric to the axis of the shaft and which have their bottoms complementarily sloped as indicated by the line shading at 22, 23 in Figs. XVII and XVIII. Axially slidable in transversbosses of the lay side members 9 are rollers '24 whereof the ends engage the grooves of the cam disks i9. Accordingly, as the shaft 1 is revolved, the rollers 24 alternately follow the eccentric and concentric grooves 20, 2| of the cam disks IS, with the result that, during alternate rotations, the lay 8 is moved through a beat stroke and during intervening rotations, caused to dwell in retracted position. Per se, the described lay motion forms no part of the'present invention, it being the subject of a. separate patent application, Serial No. 722,438, filed by the present applicants on April 26, 1934. The shuttle boxes comprehensively designated 25, 26 (Figs. III and IV) are of the double type with upper and lower shuttle receptacles or-compartments respectively at the levels .of reversing upper and lower sheds formed by two sets of warp yarns W under control of suitable reversing har ness (not shown) incident to the production of double pile fabric F in the well known way. In

agcordance with our invention, the shuttle boxes 50 25, 25 are stationary and rigidly. secured to the side frames 2 and 3 ofthe loom. At their outer ends, the shuttle boxes 25 and 26 are afforded ad-. ditional support by supplemental standards 21 and 28, as shown in Fig. III. The box 25 is' provided 5 insly urged inward through openings, at m the box frontby. spring fingers 38, 40.

The two shuttles ll, 42 which are used in the loom are simultaneously thrown in opposite directions through the upperand lower warp sheds and between the, two shuttle boxes 25 and 2G by means of a picker mechanism which-includes a pair of picker sticks 43 and 44, see Figs. I, II and III. As shown, these pickersticks and H are fulcrumed at their lower ends to positionally fixed brackets 45 and and have theirupper ends respeetively engaging pickers 41 which are slidable on horizontal guide rods 48 at the backs of the shuttle boxes and. which have forward projec- 76 v :v g

iournaled-vin bearings at the inner sides of, the

' frames 2, 3, near the bottom, said shafts having batjwing" cams 62 adapted to be engaged by the "picker balls 53 on the main shaft I.

m Surmounting the shuttle box 26 at the righthand side of the loom '(Fig. 111) is a gravity feed magazine 55 forillled bobbins B-which are to be successively inserted intov the shuttles, as later on explained, to take the place of exhausted.

5 bobbins. As shown, the magazine 56 comprises spaced side frames 56 and 61 which are rigidly connected at suitable intervals by transverse tie bars 58, said side frames affording vertical channels or guideways 58 and-68 adapted to receive 20 the opposite ends of the bobbins B, with the lat- Y te'r piled on top of each other, see Fig. VII, the

lowermost bobbin being intercepted by a release member 6I having a semi-annular cross section.

At its ends, this release member 6| is provided 4 25 with arms 62 and 63 which-are pivoted at 64 to the side frames 56 and 51 of the magazine 55, the arm 62 being coupled at 65 with a vertical bar 66 which is guided, in' slide bearings .61 on the magazine frame 56, see Fig. V. Intermediate 30 its ends, the slide .bar 66 ,has a cross groovewhich is engaged by a "finger 680p a horizontal shaft 68 journaled in hearings on the magazine frame 56 At one end the shaft 69 has an arm 18 which is coupled,\by means of a drop link H,

85 with an arm 12 on a shaft 13 secured in fixed .bearings at the front of the loom, and subject to a torsion spring 14 (Fig. IV) which tends to turn it clockwise in Fig. V. The turning movementof the shaft 13 in one direction is limited 4,8-by engagement of a projection 13a on a loosely attached collar 13b with one of the tie bars36 of the magazine 55, see Fig. III, and in the other 9 direction by engagement of the arm 85. th 9.

projection 56a on thesi'de frame 56 of the maga 46 zine 55, Also secured tothe shaft 13 is a pendant arm 15 of angular configuration 'with spaced lateral studs 16 and "at its lower end. 'I'hese studs 16 and 11 are adapted to be engaged -respectively'by coupling levers '18 and 18 pivoted at 50 88 and 8l to one of the side members 8 of the lay '8, said levers-having hook notches at their outer ends to fit the studs. Normally, the levels 18, 18 rest by gravity on stop pins 82 and 83 projecting from a bracket 86 on the loom frame 155 3, as shown in Fig.V. Still another arm 85 on 5 and the 'lowe'r faceof the cross head 81, are

compression springs 8i which permit the rods to -yieldsomewhatincident'tmejection of a bobbin fromithe magazine as lateron' explained. 'Other ="c'ollars 82 "on the thrust rods 88 normally engage 70 the topof the crosaheadfl .to limit the down mire-ts is released, and K rolls 'down inclined contra tiiiuationssi'ortne guideways58 and, coming.

ratchet I88.

ard movement of saidiods under the action j f tliesprin sfl." When the stop member 6| is '-*actuated}the'lowermost bobbin B in the maga- 3, to rest immediately below the ejectoi plunger 88- 'on the rods 88, with their ends supported in crotches between the downwardly curved oppos- -ing lips 86 of horizontal detaining members 81 of which there is"a pair at each side of the 5 magazine, see Figs. 1,11, IV and V. As shown, the detaining members 81 are suspended by parallel suspension links 88, and each 'pair is connected by a tension spring 88. ,With this arrangement, as the plunger-rods 88 are depressed to eject 9. released bobbin B from the magazine 66, the detaining members 81 yield to separation under spring action for passage of the bobbin ends between them. g

For the purpose of supporting the free weft ends of the stored bobbinsB, there is provided an endless vertical sprocket chain I88 (Figs'II, III, XIX and ,xx). with spaced spring pinch clips I8I to receive said yarn ends'and to hold them vertically spaced against the possibility 'of' 20 entanglement as shown in Fig. III,- This lchain I88 is trained over sprocket wheels I82, I83 whereof theupper one, is secured to a horizontal shaft I85, joumaled in suitable bracket bearings I86 and I 81on the magazine framework, while the lower one has its shaft journaled in a bracket I88 attached to the shuttle box 26. JSecured to the inner end (of the upper sprocket shaft I85 is a. ratchet wheel I88 which is, adapted to be picked by a pawl II lion an arm I II free on said shaft. This arm III is actuated by a projection II2 on the cross head 81, and its movement downward is limited by a stop 'I I3 on the bearing bracket I81 for the sprocket shaft I85, as shown in dot-and-dash lines irf' Fig. XXI. Thus, with ejection of each'rele sed bobbin B from the magazine 55,,the spr cket shaft I85 is given arotative shift, whereby the weft ends E are moved downward compensatively with the gravitation of the bobbin pile in'said magazine. ==A brake block 40 Ill adjustable in the bracket. I86 and bearing on a flanged brake drum II5 on the sprocket shaft J85, serves to prevent overthrow of the shaft under the action of the pawl H8 and In order to sever the strands of the weft yarn projecting from the selvage of the fabric at the magazine sideof the loom when a bobbin change is to be effected,- we have provided in association with the right-hand shuttle box 26, a shearing means, for the explanation of which reference 'will behad to- Figs. IV,'IX-)HI, and XXV. As' illustrated, this shearing mechanism comprises a pair of parallel horizontal arms II6 which are pivoted to swing on 'fulcrum bolts I "screwed 26. The swinging ends of the armsl I6 are. angu-- larly deflected outward away -from the shuttle box 26, and longitudinally slotted, as at-J I8, for

passage of a vertical spanner bolt II8 which is secured, at the center, to a lever I28 with fulcrum'support-at I2I ona bracket I22 attached to the side frame 3 of the loom. The lever I28 is formed, as shown in Figs. 4G,, with an angu-- lai' cam slot I23 whic s engaged by..a roller I26at the lowerend'of; another arm I25 fast on the rock shaft 13 hereinbefore referred to, see" FigsuII-N. Bolted to the front side of 'the shuttle box 26 along the upperand lower edges thereof are bars I26, which, at their amends.

aiford=medial pivot bearings I21 for arms I28 carrying shear devices [28 and. I38, one .tooperate in conjunction with the upper shuttle 4i and the other; with the lower shuttle 42. The

blades of the'shear devices I28 and I38 are of .75 I 

